Passengers flying from the Netherlands to the U.S. ended up at a Canadian military base
Things didn't go according to plan.
Passengers on a Delta Air Lines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit spent the night in a military barracks in eastern Canada. This happened because their plane was forced to land urgently due to technical problems.
On Sunday afternoon, people aboard a plane that had landed suddenly found themselves not in the US city of Detroit, but in the town of Goose Bay in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. For the passengers, what happened came as a surprise — the crew did not notify them of the emergency landing so as not to provoke panic.
However, some still managed to be frightened when they saw from the porthole not the international Detroit Metropolitan Wayne, but a tiny airport in the middle of an unfamiliar area.
Since there is no suitable hotel nearby, the passengers were accommodated for a full day at a nearby military base, right in the barracks. And some people even enjoyed the experience:
"It honestly felt like a hotel," a passenger on the flight told reporters. "It wasn't too bad. We had soap, water, everything."
After 24 hours, everyone was taken back to the airport. The airline has already reported on the length of the delay:
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